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We had a uni student studying maths at oxford observe our maths lesson. Our teacher gave us his surname being like ‘this is mr [insert his surname]’ but honestly I already have a shit memory and am even worse at remembering names and can’t remember for the life of me what it was. But anyway he comes over to my table to observe what I’m doing and I hate when people look at me work because it makes me nervous. Anywhore, he asks me what I’m doing and I fuck up my explanation because like I said - the nervousness. Then my maths teacher asks me to show my working on the board which caught me off guard and which I’m pretty sure she wanted to happen. So after making a fool of myself the uni guy comes up to me and teaches me how to add big numbers in my head without using my calculator. And I’m shit at this because it requires mental space since you have to store numbers in your head etc. But like I said - the nervousness + my bad memory means I repeatedly fuck up while the person sitting next to me doesn’t (there’s one desk and it’s two people per desk, so it’s me and this guy V and he’s pretty much a maths wizz and was good at it, I was not). So to get away from the whole mathsy conversation I ask him about uni life and why he was here, if he wanted to be a teacher etc etc and yeh we got pretty close in the space of that one maths lesson tbh. He also confessed he had no idea what we were doing because it’d been so long since he’d done such easy maths. I looked at him knowingly and said something like ‘you’re doing the type of maths where there’s more letters from the alphabet than actual numbers’ and he chuckles and explained what he did. Then the bell goes and we have to inevitably leave and as I leave I turn around and say ‘Bye Mr uuuum, what’s your name again, I forgot’ and he smiles and sort of chuckled shouting (okay not shouting but in a raised voice) back at me ‘Just call me Leo’ and I smile and say ‘Bye Leo’ but yeh that was an eventful lesson, did I mention he was kinda cute?? Also I remembered his name that time because it’s my star sign haha